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Buh bye, Wegmans
14 June 2016 14:07My tweeting my rant to Wegmans got a response and this is the lame letter from the store which I'll insert my opinions in bold:
"Good Afternoon, I wanted to take the time this afternoon and reach out to you in regards to your recent shopping experience here at our store. First off I want to apologize for your poor shopping experience as we would never want that to happen to our customers. I will first address your experience with the Sushi not being ready for your convenience at 9 am when you were in shopping, due to the freshness of the products we aim to have all of our sushi set around 10 am, with that being said we have our employees here starting as early as 6 am, so if you ever want a specific roll that is not out we would be glad to make that roll for you. I apologize that the new cauliflower rice roll was not out for you and I hope in the future you are able to give this a try."
By 9am on a weekend, any grocery store is HOPPING with business and food that's advertised as prepackaged should be ready to pick up. If the staff members already been there for two to three hours, having only three kinds of rolls prepared is pretty sad. It reeks of poor management. There's no actual visual menu of sushi rolls to pick from that I've ever seen, what would I even know to ask for without pestering someone for a listing? Besides, who else would feel shitty about interrupting someone making regular stock for them to stop and make me something special?
In regards to the Produce department not being fully stocked in the morning we have 3 overnight employees that come in to assure the department is ready to go in the morning. If there is ever a specific item you are looking for don’t hesitate to ask as it should be on the fresh delivery that we receive every morning.
Yet again, what a cop-out putting the burden on the customer to hunt someone down to ask for something. I wasn't not talking about one or two items being out of stock, entire WALLS of produce were completely empty at 9am. Well, except for obnoxiously overpriced crap like the $7/pound pre-cut cauliflower and the other expensive pre-chopped produce. It's all about the profit, clearly.
As for the Merchandising side of the store, we have a full team of overnight employees who stock our store and make sure It is ready for our business first thing in the morning when our store opens and we have employees here throughout the whole day to ensure our product levels are good for our customers
Uh...except that I observed that the product levels were not ready for business even three hours after opening much less first thing and that the product levels were not good. It was the primary point of the entire previous rant. Pay attention, bud.
I also want to apologize for your poor check out experience and we will address this with the cashier, if you are able to reply with the operator Id number located at the bottom of your receipt, it would be greatly appreciated.
No. I'm not laying the burden of shitty bagging on one person. I noted and have tweeted and emailed them in the past about bagging problems. It's a MANGEMENT problem. A TRAINING problem and I won't have one individual cashier punished for a systemic issue.
We do take a these concerns seriously and they will be addressed. We put a lot of time and effort into training our employees and if there is ever a time we can get better we will always seize that opportunity. I would love to chat with you and help resolve any more of your concerns in the future, I hope we do not lose you as a customer as we are always looking for way to continuously improve our business. We appreciate your feedback and will do what we can to be better every day. If you are ever in our store again which I hope you will be don’t hesitate to ask for one of our Store Leadership members so we can assist in the future. Thank you so much.
You know, if it weren't for the lame excuses given earlier, I'd believe this. But after all those deflections and requests to blame things on anyone else except management, this comes across as a copy/paste form statement.
This reinforces my thought that I'm going to see what else is out in the big, wide world of food shopping. I'm sure there are some nice and maybe nearby Mom and Pop places I haven't explored that could use my money. Is Wegmans going to go under from not having my piddly bit of business? Maybe not, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that's displeased with a lack of customer service.
"Good Afternoon, I wanted to take the time this afternoon and reach out to you in regards to your recent shopping experience here at our store. First off I want to apologize for your poor shopping experience as we would never want that to happen to our customers. I will first address your experience with the Sushi not being ready for your convenience at 9 am when you were in shopping, due to the freshness of the products we aim to have all of our sushi set around 10 am, with that being said we have our employees here starting as early as 6 am, so if you ever want a specific roll that is not out we would be glad to make that roll for you. I apologize that the new cauliflower rice roll was not out for you and I hope in the future you are able to give this a try."
By 9am on a weekend, any grocery store is HOPPING with business and food that's advertised as prepackaged should be ready to pick up. If the staff members already been there for two to three hours, having only three kinds of rolls prepared is pretty sad. It reeks of poor management. There's no actual visual menu of sushi rolls to pick from that I've ever seen, what would I even know to ask for without pestering someone for a listing? Besides, who else would feel shitty about interrupting someone making regular stock for them to stop and make me something special?
In regards to the Produce department not being fully stocked in the morning we have 3 overnight employees that come in to assure the department is ready to go in the morning. If there is ever a specific item you are looking for don’t hesitate to ask as it should be on the fresh delivery that we receive every morning.
Yet again, what a cop-out putting the burden on the customer to hunt someone down to ask for something. I wasn't not talking about one or two items being out of stock, entire WALLS of produce were completely empty at 9am. Well, except for obnoxiously overpriced crap like the $7/pound pre-cut cauliflower and the other expensive pre-chopped produce. It's all about the profit, clearly.
As for the Merchandising side of the store, we have a full team of overnight employees who stock our store and make sure It is ready for our business first thing in the morning when our store opens and we have employees here throughout the whole day to ensure our product levels are good for our customers
Uh...except that I observed that the product levels were not ready for business even three hours after opening much less first thing and that the product levels were not good. It was the primary point of the entire previous rant. Pay attention, bud.
I also want to apologize for your poor check out experience and we will address this with the cashier, if you are able to reply with the operator Id number located at the bottom of your receipt, it would be greatly appreciated.
No. I'm not laying the burden of shitty bagging on one person. I noted and have tweeted and emailed them in the past about bagging problems. It's a MANGEMENT problem. A TRAINING problem and I won't have one individual cashier punished for a systemic issue.
We do take a these concerns seriously and they will be addressed. We put a lot of time and effort into training our employees and if there is ever a time we can get better we will always seize that opportunity. I would love to chat with you and help resolve any more of your concerns in the future, I hope we do not lose you as a customer as we are always looking for way to continuously improve our business. We appreciate your feedback and will do what we can to be better every day. If you are ever in our store again which I hope you will be don’t hesitate to ask for one of our Store Leadership members so we can assist in the future. Thank you so much.
You know, if it weren't for the lame excuses given earlier, I'd believe this. But after all those deflections and requests to blame things on anyone else except management, this comes across as a copy/paste form statement.
This reinforces my thought that I'm going to see what else is out in the big, wide world of food shopping. I'm sure there are some nice and maybe nearby Mom and Pop places I haven't explored that could use my money. Is Wegmans going to go under from not having my piddly bit of business? Maybe not, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that's displeased with a lack of customer service.
